Entries in the Personal category:
Going Freelance
Peering over the edge, the pool looks a lot further down than it did earlier. The water reflects the purple blue sky the single solitary cloud. Calm and unreadable, but somehow with a terrifying edge.
A moment of stillness, followed by the dive.
It will either be the most amazing, shimmering, life-changing experience.. or equally it could be a total bellyflop. The black unbroken mirror of the water looms. Impossible to fathom. Time seems to hold it’s breath, and I can’t help enjoy the feeling of falling and the thrill of the unknown.
From today I’m going freelance as a Cocoa and iOS developer, creating extra-ordinary, soulful applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and the Mac. I’m a lone code wrangler, newly returned from shaving yaks in the distant lands of architecture, prepared to face down any problem the compiler throws at me. I’m ready, able and available for hire.
NSCache is slow
Really slow according to Shark:
Apparently inserting an object into NSCache is 50x slower than a regular NSMutableDictionary! It’s possible Shark might not be reporting the figures accurately.
My current work-around is to store up additions to the NSCache so that they can be inserted at a later time, when processing power is at less of a premium. Yes, shoot me. I’ve subclassed NSCache.
An Introduction
Loosing my computer seems like a petty trauma. Like a strange distortion of sensory deprivation. It depresses me how reliant on this hyper-connected world I have become. It seems to infiltrate even my thoughts. The computer has replaced memory & reason. Unfortunately in my case it’s all self inflicted. From Tuesday my trusty scuffed Macbook Pro will be packed off in a box, to return at some undefined point in the future with a less broken screen. So not the most auspicious start to this blogery.
My names Harry Jordan, and amongst other things I’m a designer and a programmer. I have a thing for User Interfaces and prefer to write Mac applications using Cocoa/Objective-C, although I dabble in all sorts. I share my time between Leicester, where I’m close to not being a student at De Montfort University, and my real heartlands, which are in deepest darkest Wales.